Why you started speedrunning pokemon: I loved this game as a kid and saw Shenanagans do 151 and Werster do gen 1 glitchless runs back in 2013. Every since then I've been watching speedruns of pokemon and have been doing speedruns of my own for the past few months.

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Why I started and Why Pokemon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness? : the Pokemon gamecube games need more love as far as speedrunning them. i enjoy colosseum and XD mainly because it takes a lot of thinking and adaptability. also both games may be a grindy game at times but i really love them because of the knowledge you have to have to run each game. they need lots of love right now and more runners also i encourage more people to run them they are really fun. i like doing runs my way but i use some and most of current strats involved other then the beginning and near the very end. i will run other things when i get my goal. Goal time: 4:09-4:11 around that range then i'm permanently done with any% Colosseum then moving on to all snags then onto 0 snags routing. i'm very sorry for this being so long of a explaination of why i started ty for taking the time to read.

Why you started speedrunning pokemon: Basically, i always used to play Pokémon, being a kid that had no friends when entering school, my mom bought me a Gameboy Color with Pokémon Blue as the game in it. And the first time i actually pressed '' New Game '', i knew it was for me. Some time later, i bought myself a Gameboy Advance with Pokémon Fire Red, Mystery Dungeon : Red Rescue Team and Emerald and played everytime i could. And everything i was seeing was turning in a Pokémon for me, a plush toy, a cup of coffee, etc. And the existence of these games really made my life brighter. July 2014, a guy name MelonSpeedruns got to talk to me on Skype and initiated me on Twitch to run some games, i was thinking to myself that i could of run Pokémon, but i tought that if i did, i would lose total interest in it with some time and it would completely break my nostalgy of my childhood. So, i basically didn't talked about that and i started doing Sonic Adventure 2 : Battle ( Hero Side Story ) instead. And some nights, after streaming, i would just lay in bed and think on what it would be to run them actually, like not just think of it. But, i still hesitated a while a tried some other games that i used to barely put any efforts in because it's not what i really wanted to do. And i said i would run XD 1 month ago and did my first run previous Sunday. And the feeling that i got was really unexpected, i got to feel amazingly good inside and i know i'm going to feel like that for a loooooooooooong time still. Pokémon changed my life and Speedrunning too. That's why i started playing/running Pokémon.

Why you started speedrunning pokemon: One day a few years ago I just so happened to find werster's youtube channel and fell in love with the concept. I watched for a couple years (just about every category too), but I really wanted to speedrun myself. I've played pokemon my whole life almost, and before I had gotten into speedrunning I had already played a few thousand hours; I'm addicted to pokemon. I love the community and I love the feeling you get when you PB!

Why you started speedrunning pokemon: Pokémon Red was what got me interested in speedrunning to begin with and I never really dabbled in the series until ORAS came out. After a break from ORAS I came back to Alpha Sapphire and moved on to other games such as Black and FireRed and really can't see myself focusing on other franchises anymore.

Why you started speedrunning pokemon: Pokémon was my favorite Game in the childhood and after i saw some of AGDQ and SGDQ Pokemon Runs, i was completley hyped about tht and then i started to run Pokémon.

Why you started speedrunning pokemon: Hate to say it started with TPP. Friend told me to check it out (never knew what twitch was until then) Checked other people playing Red/Blue and saw werster running it and it got my attention and was hooked since. And I really love all pokemon games in general so it is a really great hobby.

Why I started speedrunning Pokemon:
At first when watching Werster and Shenanagans_ do runs of the various games and watching GDQ runs I thought it was a very intimidating speedgame/series for a newbie. In fact I did very short glitched runs like Blue NSC and dabbled a tiny bit with Mystery Dungeon/SRL randoms at first. Then I tried Alpha Sapphire in Sept. 2015 after watching the PSR Marathon run and being inspried by that run to try it myself. Even though it was a very bad run I still had tons of fun with it in the end and it exploded from there alongside speedruns of other games,haven't turned back since

Pokemon game I speedrun: Pokemon R/B/Y (Only one with evidence), Pokemon G/S/C (Learning), And Beginning in Pokemon Conquest (Research and soon getting a route started)

Video proof of current PB: (Is listed under VladXana under Speedrun.com leaderboards) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fW7JCClzV_s Pokemon Blue NSC 27:34 (Very unoptimized, and first recorded speedrun, will get more as time progresses)

Why I started speedrunning Pokemon: I was bored on YouTube one day, and noticed in my feed highlights from AGDQ 2015, the main one being Pokemon Blue NSC by Werster, then went onto Green by Shenanagans, and I have been hooked since. I started with that category being my main focus, and used the wiki's original route at the time (Brock through walls and Missingno Underflow predating death-fly) and just began learning the game at a much deeper level. I know the game relatively well, but I am still learning quite a bit from my own research of the community (as this is my first official post aside from my mediocre run I published). Conquest is just a game I really enjoy and find it very underappreciated, so I will be trial and error to find the best route for the game with what is already known.

Why I started speedrunning Pokemon: I've been watching Pokemon speedruns for a while since I found out about it on Twitch, and it looked interesting to try it out myself and maybe try to make my own twists like using a different lead to finish the game with. I'm also interested in the PSR community, enjoying the technical discussions held in discord and trying to help figuring stuff out. I'm currently also working on a routing application myself (you could say a GUI RouteOne).

Why I started speedrunning Pokémon: Pokémon Sun is my favourite game since Pokémon Silver in Gen 2, vibrant characters with personalities that feel alive and a warm vast world. I have found a game that I can play repeatedly with a desire to improve my time.

Why you started speedrunning Pokémon: I came across WasabiKnight doing Crystal one day and had me intrigued - This was a perfect excuse for me to play older Pokémon-games and having something competitive to do!